Ms. Interlandi is a member of the editorial board. Mr. Winter is a staff photographer on assignment in Opinion. Raina Mcmahan, a 42-year-old recovery coach, spent roughly half her life seeking ...

Big addiction treatment “campuses” aren’t allowed in residential neighborhoods without special permits. But providers in California get around that by clustering many small homes together — one ...

Remember those stuffy doctors who, a couple hundred years ago, tried to cure disease with leeches and dismissed women as weak and hysterical? A man shoots heroin between stints in Orange County and ...

Addiction tends to develop over time, emerging in adolescence and young adulthood. There are a host of reasons for this tendency, some of them biological and some of them social or environmental. But, ...

Treatment for sex addiction, and sexual behavior problems at large, are rarely covered by health insurance, much less by Medicaid or public sector funding. As a result, the majority of professional ...

More than 100,000 people die every year from opioid overdoses - and some believe the new class of drugs could help save those lives ...

Far fewer people are using opioids than a decade ago, surveys indicate, and substance use experts and former opioid users say ...

Maryland is taking in billions from gambling as more residents lose money and addiction rates climb. From lottery tickets to ...